Gregg Williams Here We Go Again.

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Originally Posted by Longtimefan

I found interesting the portion of the article where he spoke of the prospect of being a head coach at some point in time again. How he was blindsided by Gibbs with the hiring of Al Saunders, because he had no idea that was his actual intention. He had mentioned to him, if he was/or became a head coach again, he would consider hiring Saunders as his offensive coordinator, and before he knew what was happening, it was a done deal. It appeared striking that Gibbs hadn't seemed to have given it a lot of thought.

I think Gibbs was completely joking when he said to Williams "I picked him because of what you said" I think that Gibbs had it in the works for a while. Remember how back in late November/early December of 2005 Gibbs made a comment about how Dan (Snyder) has agreed to do something that I will know hurt him financially but is good for the team? I think it was then that Gibbs convinced Snyder to open his wallet for Saunders (assuming he became available)

That said, I also think Williams' endorsement helped because Gibbs probably thought "Well Gregg is my successor here, it'd be good to hire someone he would want here as well"